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Librarians’ Competencies in Support of E-Research and Scholarly Communication

Iryna Kuchma, Birgit Schmidt, Kathleen Shearer,

Pascal Calarco, Rob Grim, Alicia López Medina, Susan Reilly, Judy Ruttenberg,

Dominic TateOctober 14, 2014

Bibliotheca academica 2014

Drivers for the Task Force (TF)

Carmen-Gloria Labbe, co-Chair of the COAR Board: Discussion around COAR training in Latin America for repository managers, evolved into competencies, included in COAR Strategic PlanLIBER, ARL, CARL joined

Charge & scope of TF work

Outline the competencies needed by librarians in an evolving environment1. Identify the avenues of service for

libraries within the context of e-research, repository management, & scholarly communication

2. Map the services & roles to the competencies required by librarians and library professionals

Charge & scope of TF work (2)

• Note of the array of organizational models evolving to support new services

• Produce a toolkit that will help to build capacity in libraries for supporting new roles

Activities over the last year

• Defining collaboration tools & processes

• Literature review• Identified E-Research specialization

areas• Gathered job descriptions from web

searches• Wiki/Dropbox/Google Drive for

community communication & feedback

• What ‘the toolkit’ might look like – ideas discussed

Challenges

• “E-Research” not used globally; jargon

• Relationships & overlap between specializations, competencies, skills

• Terminology/nomenclature imprecise, variable

• Competencies: hard & soft skills• Qualifications for competencies

based in practice, less in academic programs, although this is evolving

Community feedback

• Task Force relies on feedback from these communities of practice around E-ResearchPresentations at: CNI (March & April 2014; St. Louis, MO); COAR General Assembly (May 2014, Athens); OR 2014 (June 2014, Helsinki), LIBER (July 2014, Riga)

• Ideas for venues to connect for other service areas welcome

• Consulting group: advise & provide feedback

Outcomes – Service AreasScholarly Communication & OA Research Data Management (RDM):• Definition• Roles involved• Core competencies• List of job titles• Related service areas• Selected literature

Competency areas: Scholarly Communication &

OARoles involved:• Scholarly publishing services• Copyright & OA advocacy & outreach• Scholarly resource assessment


OA (2)Core competencies: Scholarly publishing services• OA publishing models• Infrastructure (OJS, OMP,

repositories)• Standards: DOI, ISSN, ISBN,

persistent URL and citation options, such as OpenURL and CNRI Handle


OA (3)Core competencies: Scholarly publishing services (2)• Funder OA mandates and

requirements• Data formats, database design, data

management, data manipulation tools

• Awareness of data curation and preservation options


OA (4)Core competencies: Copyright and OA advocacy and outreach• OA policy and advocacy• Support and training


OA (5)Support and training: • Raise awareness for the need and

options of OA, including practical questions such as financing

• Advise faculty and graduate students on alternatives to signing away copyright to their original scholarly works


OA (6)Support and training (2): • Promote data sharing and reuse,

explain data citation• Copyright and intellectual property

licensing issues relating to scholarship and commercial and non-commercial publishing; Creative Commons and other OA license models


OA (7)Support and training (3): • Advisory skills, collaboration skills,

service marketing, project management, etc.

• Management of digital collections, metadata standards, discovery tools

• Traditional scholarly publishing economics and open access benefits and requirements


OA (8)Core competencies: Scholarly resource assessment• Bibliometrics and altmetrics theory &

practice• Faculty promotion & tenure policies &

procedures• Institutional assessment/planning

interests in scholarly output


OA (9)Related service areas & roles: Research data management, collection development, advisory services (copyright, policies, etc.), information literacyTo work with: Digital Repository Librarian, Subject Librarian, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Digital Humanities Librarian

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Competency areas: RDM

Roles involved:• Providing access to data• Advocacy & support for managing

data• Managing data collections

Competency areas: RDM (2)

Core competencies:Some level of subject knowledge is required. In particular librarians need to have an understanding of the disciplinary landscape, norms, and standards.


Core competencies: Providing access to data• Data centres, repositories &

collections• The way data are organized &

structured within these collections• Data licensing & IP policies and

principles• Data manipulation/analysis

techniques & tools

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Core competencies: Advocacy & support for managing data• Funders’ policies & requirements• Data management plans• Articulate benefits of data sharing &

re-use• Research practices & workflows• Disciplinary norms & standards


Core competencies: Advocacy & support for managing data (2)• Data structures, types & formats• Best practices for managing data,

standards, metadata & vocabularies• Data publication requirements of

specific journals


Core competencies: Advocacy & support for managing data (3)• Data sharing options, open access,

IPR, licenses• Data audit and assessment tools.

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Core competencies: Managing data collections• Selection & appraisal techniques for

datasets• Metadata standards & schemas, data

formats, domain ontologies, identifiers, data citation, data licensing

• Discovery tools


Core competencies: Managing data collections (2)• Database design types & structures• Data linking & data integration

techniques• Data storage infrastructures• Digital preservation metadata• Forensic procedures in digital

curation


Related service areas & roles: OA & institutional repositories, collection development, advisory services (copyright, policies, etc.), information literacy, digital curation, digital preservation, digital collectionsTo work with: Data Creator, Data Scientist, Research Coordinator/Manager, Data Curator, Digital Preservation Librarian, Repository Manager, Subject Librarian

Activity Report Working Group 1:

Repository Content

Silvia NakanoMay 21, 2014

COAR General Assembly 2014, Athens, Greece

Outcomes – Service AreasDigital Humanities (DH):• Framework• Roles involved• Services/Tasks/Functions/

Responsibilities• Competencies/Skills/Expertise• Related service areas & roles• Literature

Outcomes – Service AreasDiscussions with DH practitioners• Maryland Institute for Technology in the

Humanities • The Ohio State University• University of Colorado Libraries DH Task

Force• ACRL Digital Humanities Interest Group• University of Florida DH Libraries Group• University of Virginia Scholars Lab• Gottingen Centre for Digital Humanities• DARIAH-EU...

Competency areas: DH

Services/Tasks/Functions/Responsibilities• Scholarly communication &

publishing• Technical services • Digital Humanities Research and

Consulting• Teaching/training• Space/Collaboratories

Competency areas: DH (2)

Competencies/Skills/Expertise• Subject/domain: Academic subject

expertise, Librarianship & Scholarly Communication, Data curation & management


Competencies/Skills/Expertise (2)• Technical: Data visualization, Text-

mining, GIS, Statistical analysis tools, Designing & programming relational databases, Server-side web development, metadata standards & schema, Text markup & encoding, Software evaluation & integration, Software development


Competencies/Skills/Expertise (3)• Technical: Open source systems

administration, Current web technologies, Network analysis & graph theory, Topic modeling, current software commonly used in digital humanities projects (e.g. Zotero, Mendeley, Omeka, etc.), knowledge on Semantic web technologies, Linked data


Competencies/Skills/Expertise (4)• Project Management/Program

Development• Partnerships/Collaboration• Teaching/Training: Ability to educate

library staff on digital arts & humanities topics


Related service areas & roles: Repository Manager, Data Manager & Scholarly Communication Librarian

To work with: Digital Repository Librarian, Subject Librarian, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Digital Humanities Librarian

Work ahead

Reviewing draft profiles & engaging in describing other

service areas:Digital preservation

Digital CurationMetadata

Research SupportInstructional Services

Repository ManagementDigital Initiatives

Technology Services

Work ahead (2)

Clustering competencies/specializations• Identifying areas of overlap• Probably aggregate areas that are very

close in competencies/roles• Both technical “hard” skills &

communication/organization “soft” skills• An imperfect art & each service area

continues to evolve

Work ahead (3)

Developing an online toolkit that will allow library managers• to identify skill gaps in their institution; • form the basis of job

descriptions/announcements; • enable professionals to carry out self-

assessments; • act as a foundation for the development of

training programs for librarians/library professionals.

Work ahead (4)

In addition, the toolkit will provide an outline of new organizational models for libraries.

What might the toolkit look like?

• Web-based• An aggregation of documents and

web resources?• A guide for developing new positions

for specific needs?• Audience: administrators,

practitioners, others

Feedback & questions

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